Uni drops down top 10 place in global rankings

CAMBRIDGE GOES FROM FIFTH TO SIXTH AS OXFORD ALSO FALLS - DOWN TO FOURTH

- By ROSIE SHEAD, PA, AND ANNETTE BELCHER

THE University of Cambridge has dropped down in the global rankings.

Imperial College London has placed higher than the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, while 54 UK universities have dropped.

The QS Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings have seen Imperial ranked as the top UK university, above Oxbridge, for the second year in a row.

Oxford fell from third to fourth place, while Cambridge fell from fifth to sixth in the global rankings for 2026, PA reports.

Only Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US which secured the top spot in the rankings again outperformed Imperial College London.